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WORKING WITH BLOCKS IN THE SEQUENCER
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Muting lanes in Block Automation Clips
When you have arranged your Block Automation Clips as desired on the Blocks Track, it is possible to mute individual
lanes contained in any Block. These lanes will remain muted until the end of the Block Automation Clip.
This way you can use the same Block to create a song intro, by gradually introducing more and more sequencer
tracks/lanes. The example below shows how to mute lanes in individual Block Automation Clips to create a song in-
tro.
We are going to use one single Block - Block 1 - to create a song intro. The Block is 8 bars long and uses four se-
quencer tracks. In the Block View we have recorded on all four sequencer tracks:
Block 1 in the Block View with four sequencer tracks.
Now, we want to arrange our song so we switch to the Song View and draw an 8 bar Block Automation Clip on the
Blocks Track:
An 8 bar Block Automation Clip assigned to Block 1.
In our intro we want the Piano and Bass track to play the first eight bars. In the next eight bars we want to have the
drums playing as well. Then, we want the song to continue for another 16 bars with all tracks playing except the Pi-
ano track.
To achieve this, we need to create several Block Automation Clips that play back the same Block. This is because
when we’re going to mute lanes later on, we need to define for how many bars we want the mutes to be active. The
duration of the mutes are defined solely by the lengths of the Block Automation Clips.
Clips recorded in
the Block View
The Block contents
in the Song View
Block Automation Clip